수업자료 11장

1) A new stage of Jane's life has begun, and she feels it will be a good one.

2) Mrs. Fairfax proves to be a neat, mild-looking elderly lady, who greets Jane kindly.

3) For the first time, Jane learns of the existence of Mr. Rochester, the owner of Thornfield. Jane also discovers that her new pupil, Adèle Varens, is Rochester's ward. Mrs. Fairfax gives Jane some information about Rochester and his family: He is somewhat "peculiar," but a good master, and in general, the Rochesters have been a "violent" rather than a "quiet" family.

4) Adèle's mother was a dancer and singer, and Adèle is also an adept performer, who sings an opera song for Jane.

Adèle's style is more extravagant. Her excess is apparent in the operatic song she chooses, the tale of woman whose lover has forsaken her. The song's subject, which Jane feels is in very bad taste for a child, hints at Adèle's mother's sexuality, but also show that Adèle herself will need to be tamed to meet proper British moral standards.

As Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar have famously argued, the tension between conformity and rebellion is articulated in the twinned figures of Jane and Bertha. Rather than threatening Jane, Bertha acts as her "truest and darkest double"(p.360) expressing emotions, such as lust and anger, that Jane is forbidden to articulate. Consequently Bertha erupts into the test-as her laughter or the effects of her violence are perceived by the other characters-at precisely those moments when Jane has most destructively repressed emotion

수업자료 12장

1) In this chapter the reader is shown another example of Jane's restlessness.

A restlessness exists in Jane's nature that causes her pain. Walking along the corridor of the third story of the house is her only way of easing this discomfort. and, as if in response, hears the "low, slow, ha! ha!" she attributes to Grace Pool. From these musings arise a protofeminist credo.

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The narrative intrusion in chapter 12, however, is uniquely overt and polemical-->

The images of restlessness and pacing, of feeling “"stagnation”" and “"too rigid a restraint,”" are examples of the book’'s central theme of imprisonment. In addition to instances of physical imprisonment, Jane must also escape the fetters of misguided religion (represented by Brocklehurst), and of passion without principle (represented at first by Rochester)—not to mention those of society.

The passage explicitly states that the Victorian wife suffers from being metaphorically “"locked up.”" Bertha Mason, who is eventually rendered nearly inhuman when her neglected, suppressed feelings turn to madness and fury, may be viewed as a symbol of the imprisoned female’'s condition

This brief attack against Victorian women’s imposed position of passive inferiority was not extraordinary for its time. There is little evidence, however, that Charlotte Bronte supported such political movements as women’s suffrage, or that she read the works of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century feminist theorists like Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller. Jane Eyre's "feminism" is often complex, covert, and overlaid with other political implications; as many critics have suggested, Bronte's apparent feminism is undercut by conservative ideological messages.

3) Several month pass, and one day in January, Jane takes a long walk through the fields surrounding Thornfield. As she sits on a hill, watching the moon rising, a noise breaks her reverie; a horse is coming up the lane. While Jane watches for the horse, she thinks of North-of-England spirit Bessie had once told her about, called a Gytrash.

A man rides into view, and breaking Jane's spell. His horse slips on a patch of ice. Jane helps him hobble to his horse. Then horse, man, and dog all vanish.

In English folklore, the Gytrash often appears to warn people of the coming death of a friend or relative, but it also adds a mythic feeling to Jane and Rochester’s first meeting that makes their later relationship seem more extraordinary.

Having fallen from his horse, Rochester requires Jane’s assistance. This incident helps to establish equality between the two characters.